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Old 07-16-2005, 01:34 PM
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A spider has taken up residence in my xB!!!
He's a smart little $h%t too... I can't catch him!
He comes out on the windsheild to taunt, then when I go after him he dives into the front edge of the dashboard.
I can't get rid of him!
What's the life expectancy of a spider???

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Old 07-16-2005, 01:51 PM
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life expectancy?

as long as it takes you to haul a vacuum out to your car and turn it on.
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Old 07-16-2005, 02:15 PM
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if your windows aint tinted close all of your windows and put it in the sun for the day that might kill him or at least cook him
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keep him as a pet and call him boxy
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Originally Posted by fastsold
keep him as a pet and call him boxy
lol, that's what I'd do unless he was poisonous or aggresive.
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i'm so arachnaphobic, spiders scare the hell out of me.
i would use a WD40 flamethrower.
hahahaha
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Old 07-16-2005, 06:42 PM
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i got one too, leaves pretty little spiderwebs for me...
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i was driving home at night couple days ago with my sister. then when my sister (12 years old) started to cuss a lot, i said "whats wrong?" she said "there is a spider in the car, on my pants!" i found out it was just a little tiny spider, so i grab a tissue and squeeze that spider while driving on the freeway. haha, i got no time to stop. if the spider is big enough, i would pull over to the shoulder and stop. big spiders, especially dark ones, scare the **** out of me.
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some spiders like the brown recluece can live up to 3 years
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Old 07-16-2005, 07:11 PM
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just avoid letting any other bugs in your car

hes gotta eat sometime
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Old 07-16-2005, 07:24 PM
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Well, as long at it is an arachnid.

An ex of mine was nick-named "Spider," so when I frist saw this thread my thought was "How'd Joel get into this person's car? I wonder if his wife knows?"
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Old 07-16-2005, 07:52 PM
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That's Funny!, my husband put springs on my car last saturday and found a spider living in my strut tower. It was a Brown Widow howeve. Glad it didn't bite him they are posisonous. I was showing him a black widow decal on a xb I came across the day before. You find anything in florida.
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I have some sort of spider in my xB - haven't seen him/her yet, but it leaves tiny webs for me.

(I do share my bedroom with Freddy, a male European Wolf Spider, and we get along OK. He's a typical male wolf spider in that he's a hunter/killer for anything else small that moves, and doesn't do webs - he's a nomad... No, he's not a pet - he's a fellow resident.)

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ahhh!!! I hate spiders!!!
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Spiders are very territorial. To get rid of it you need to find a bigger, meaner one and put it in your dash. Then that spider will either get eaten or chased away.
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got bit by a poisonous spider once... got bit on my left ring finger... my finger swelled up at least twice its size and the swelling continued up my arm to about my shoulder then realizing the pills the doc gave me werent working i went to the hospital and spent 3 days there on an IV and then had surgery

not cool

i hate spiders
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no problem just set off a couple of insect killer bombs in your car and that's it!
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here ya go!


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Kiil it before it gets to you. Look what one did to me:

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yikes, that looks painful.
A spider once took up residence inside my fuel door on one of my cars. Little booger seemed to enjoy scaring my early in the morning at the gas pump.
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